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• May 26, 2023

  Thirsty Khartoum Searches For Water

  KHARTOUM - Fighting in Sudan has left hundreds of thousands of Khartoum residents without running water, with some forced to risk their lives and seek it out during brief lulls in violence.

• May 26, 2023

  Tunisia Cuffs 'Major' Migrant Trafficker

  TUNIS - Tunisia has arrested a man suspected being the organizer of a ring that smuggled migrants across the Mediterranean, including an attempted crossing in which 20 people drowned, authorities said.

• May 26, 2023

  France Nabs Channel Migrants

  LILLE, FRANCE - French security forces have detained 38 migrants seeking to cross the Channel on a small boat to Britain after they clashed with police, prosecutors said.

• May 26, 2023

  Rwanda Genocide Fugitive Before South Africa Court

  UPDATED FOLLOWING COURT APPEARANCE: CAPE TOWN - Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, appeared in a court in Cape Town on Friday, two days after being arrested following 22 years on the run.

• May 25, 2023

  EU Bans Subsidized Fishing

  BRUSSELS - The E.U. approved a historic agreement banning harmful fisheries subsidies on Thursday, joining a small group of countries that include the United States.

• May 25, 2023

  Ivory Coast Sets Fishing Ban to Conserve

  ABIDJAN - West African fish exporter Ivory Coast on Thursday announced temporary bans on trawling for tuna and other species in a bid to protect dwindling stocks.

• May 25, 2023

  AU: Africa Not a 'Battleground' For Global Powers

  ADDIS ABABA - Africa must not become a "geostrategic battleground" for global powers, as it grapples with several threats to its own peace and security, African Union leaders warned on Thursday, celebrated as "Africa Day."

• May 25, 2023

  Somalia's Puntland Votes

  MOGADISHU - Voters joined long queues on Thursday to cast their ballots in landmark local elections in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland, the first direct ballot in more than half a century.

• May 25, 2023

  Four Slain in Cape Town Shooting

  JOHANNESBURG - South African police said on Thursday four people believed to be of "Bulgarian descent" were shot dead in a upmarket Cape Town district.

• May 25, 2023

  South Africa Raises Key Rate, Inflation Expectation

  JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's central bank raised its main interest rate on Thursday as it also revised up its inflation forecasts.

• May 25, 2023

  US First Quarter GDP Boosted

  WASHINGTON - U.S. economic output increased by more than previously thought in the first quarter of this year, the Commerce Department said Thursday, although it still indicates the economy is weakening.

• May 25, 2023

  UK Sees 'Record' Migration

  LONDON - Net migration to the U.K. hit a record 606,000 in 2022, official figures showed Thursday, heaping pressure on the government which has pledged to cut dependency on foreign labor.

• May 25, 2023

  Eritrea Independence Day Fest Mixed

  NAIROBI - As a child, Filmon Debru longed for the festivities every May celebrating Erititra's independence, and the heroes who fought and died for it. But he is no longer cheering as Eritrea marked the holiday, formally declared on May 24, 1993.

• May 25, 2023

  Beijing Accused of Hacking Kenya Government

  NAIROBI - Chinese hackers targeted Kenya's government in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, according to three sources, cybersecurity research reports and Reuters' own analysis of technical data related to the hackings.

• May 25, 2023

  Chad Frees Opposition Protestors

  N'DJAMENA - Chad leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno has pardoned 67 more people who had been sentenced to jail terms following deadly protests against the regime last October.

• May 25, 2023

  Rwanda Genocide Fugitive Cuffed

  THE HAGUE - Fulgence Kayishema, one of four remaining fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been arrested in South Africa, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.

• May 25, 2023

  Sudan's Warring Factions Trade Finger-Points

  KHARTOUM - Sudan's warring sides on Thursday accused each other of being behind breaches of the latest cease-fire that was negotiated by the US and Saudi Arabia, now in its third day.

• May 24, 2023

  Fetty Wap Gets Six Years' Jail

  NEW YORK - U.S. rapper Fetty Wap was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for trafficking drugs across the United States.

• May 24, 2023

  Sudan Hopes Aid is Coming Quickly

  KHARTOUM - On the second full day of a ceasefire that has allowed beleaguered civilians to venture out, people are battered, hungry, in need of medical assistance, and other humanitarian issues. The U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which brokered the cease-fire, are working on deliveries.

• May 24, 2023

  Biden Offers 'Freeze' to Avert Default

  WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden offered to freeze government spending at current levels during crunch debt talks with Republicans, which would reduce the deficit by $1 trillion, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday.

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